by dianacookepi » 08 May 2009, Fri 2:58 pm
I mostly agree with the premise of this video. There are far too many persons populating the prisons who's only crime is the use of grass.
Selling grass by private persons should remain a crime punishable by prison, and buying grass from a private person should also remain a crime punishable by prison.
Grass should be made legal, and marketed, and taxed, and be available to all. And the vast majority of those in prison for using, and growing amounts for private use should not be imprisoned.
IMHO.
I have never been a cronic user of booze, or of grass. I usually engage in activities and employment where being under the influence would not only be deadly for me, but for other persons.
Being in the milatary, a police officer, an armed security guard and owner of a guard business responsible for my employees actions, a private pilot, a truck driver and owner of a trucking firm. These are occupations and activities where I either carried a gun or operated machines.
Being drunk, stoned or otherwise impaired could be deadly to me and all those unlucky enough to be around me.
The last time I smoked grass was with a date,After a while, my perception was impaired so I could not read newsprint, or view a comic strip without it appearing the print ot cartoon characters were moving about. We then DROVE to a movie theater to catch the Indiana Jones I movie. it was scary. I wanted to pull over and stop. But I was with my date, and did not want to appear not in control, so I continued on. Nothing diasterous occured that evening.
Less than a week later, I went on a cross country flight with my instructor to Mojave Airport. It was a required flight for my license. At about 5500' the instruments appeared to move about on their own, and i could not track a course nor even maintain altitude. My instructor noticed this, and when It came for me to make the landing he took control of the aircraft from me, less I kill us both. It was embarrasing, to say the least. I deduced from this that the active drug in grass was still embedded in my fat cells, and when I went up in altitude, the fat cells released the drug back into my system. I became very, stoned, and in control of an airplane with one other person aboard, travelling at just under 100 knotts over populated terrain.It may be fortunate for just me and him and possible a great many other persons he was my flight instructor instead of another person not a pilot.
In scuba diving, a person learns how the body absorbes gasses in fat cells, and at rising from a lower debth to a higher one reduces the pressure and causes these gasses to be released in the blood stream again. This is one reason slowly rising th the surface, and decompression stops for deep dives are required. Not to do so would be dangerous, maybe deadly, for the diver. The same physics exist here, as when I flew with this chemical still lurking withiin my body. Let us face facts. Most persons are not as aware of the saftey of those around them to safly be in public under the influence of any substence, be it booze, grass or other substance known to alter body chemistry in a perceivable manner.
So grass is as potentially deadly as booze, and it should remain a controled substance. But not illeagl. And a piss test before my flight to the high desert would have in all probability turned up negative. The drug was still embedded in my fat cells, waiting for a reduction in pressure to reented my blood . A mandatory piss test would NOT have prevented the flight.
Do not tell me grass is not dangerous. in this way, it is more dangerous than booze.
"No stupid man has ever imagined himself as being anything but clever." Diana Cooke: detective, psychologist, Woman at Large.